Jet Girl said...
End of a long and distinguished ac building history.
Us Brit's may have made some very beautiful airliners (VC10 etc) and pioneering technological marvels (Concorde, Viscount, Comet) and we may build them like brick outhouses but...
We've never made any real commercial successes by which I mean selling reasonable numbers globally at a profit. That's what keeps people in jobs.
So, "long" - well relatively but "distinguished" - well a good effort I suppose.